Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake) vs Apple M1 8-Core GPU

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking360not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code nameno dataAlder Lake Xe
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date10 November 2020 (4 years ago)4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores864
Core clock speed1278 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology5 nm10 nm

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Shared memory++

Supported technologies

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Quick Syncno data+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXno dataDirectX 12_1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 November 2020 4 January 2022
Chip lithography 5 nm 10 nm

Apple M1 8-Core GPU has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake), on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between Apple M1 8-Core GPU and Iris Xe Graphics 64EUs (Alder Lake). We've got no test results to judge.


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